How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
I didn't speak, because this big thing was stuck in my craw so that I had to swallow and swallow and blink and blink. It was akin to that day Granny told me about my daddy "...come riding over Cold Mountain on a black horse… big as life… so tall and straight in the saddle…" (13.41)
Every single time someone brings up her dad, Gypsy loses her composure. Even though she loved him to bits, it's painful for her to be reminded of him because the way that he died was so tragic.
Quote #8
Well, Grandpa, maybe she was happier than you thought she was," I said, although I knew from what Woodrow had said that that wasn't true.
"No, child, no. I never believed for a minute she was happy with him. That union was doomed, because it was an impulsive, foolish thing, and I'm betting they both regretted it." (13.57-58)
Grandpa doesn't think Belle was ever happy in the life she chose. She made it work for a while for Woodrow's sake, but the whole time she was regretting what she'd done. She'd made a decision out of grief and despair, and it only caused her more of the same.
Quote #9
Sometimes I would wake up with a tear on my cheek, haunted by the memory of blood on the face of a dead animal. I would look out my open window at the stars at such times, and I could almost recall what it was the nightmare was trying to tell me—almost. The ugly thing seemed ready to come out and show itself to me. (17.14)
All of Gypsy's sadness and nightmares are coming to the surface. It's almost like her subconscious is telling her that she can't repress these bad feelings any longer; she has to confront them.